Publish 34 - 4/16/2012

[King Kong]

Publish 34

One of my personal favorite publishes to date. I'd like to personally thank Vorspire for his innovation and skills. We are lucky to have him. - Kon

Battle Seasons

- The Battles have gotten many overall improvments, tweaks, and added efficiency.

- Introducing Seasons. Every 30 days/Each Month starts a new Season for the Battles. The 1st Season will be extra short as we are in the middle of the month. Season 2 will start May 1st, 2012.

- At the start of each new season, Battle stats will start over. (But they will be saved/added to overall rankings and when looking at previous seasons) This will allow new faces and names to get a chance to prove themselves in the top.

- Which means all Battle stats have been wiped, but they should never be wiped again. As part of the tweaks was how the thousands of battle profiles save to server, etc. Sometimes we cannot do things until we see it live for awhile.

- When click the WAR Button in the [Battles menu you will see the current season Rankings and stats. The Season will appear at the top like this.



- If you want to see overall rankings, for all seasons, click Options like below.




- Also on your personal profile, or when viewing other Battle profiles you will see this.




and if you scroll down, their total for all seasons.





- Now the fun part. Prizes for each season. At the end of each season, a special item will be awarded to the top 3 Battlers. This means the top 3 people on the current seasons ranking points.

- The item will go automatically in your backpack at the end of the seasons. (So this season, in 2 weeks, to battle up). Now the item...


- It is called the Battle Necklace. It looks like no other necklace on the server, it's a chained cross/ankh. It automatically comes blessed and has 3 Faster Casting on it only. (Which you cannot get Imbuing or by Artifacts).
It is able to be dyed from any Tokuno Pigments (even through the white it comes in is pretty nice) and it is IMBUABLE! Very cool looking item, and this is the only way to get it.

- On it, it will say Battle Necklace and the Season you got it and your rank. See photo...



So you can see, I got this Season 1 & came in 2nd place.


- We will see how this goes with just top 3 getting this prize. We do not want a lot of them and should be a prized thing to have. We will look in future prizes for the other 7 that did place in the top 10.


Anti-Air Net

- Nets to get tangled in Gargoyle's wings. They work much like bolas, but for Gargs, they do not work on Human or Elves.

- If you are a human/elf you will still need to get off your mount to throw this. Gargoyles fly naturally, no reason for them to land to throw.. but..

- The delay between throwing bolas is currently 1 minute. The delay for Anti-Air nets is 45 seconds.

- Human/Elf dazed recovery after being bola'd is 3 seconds. If a Gargoyle gets tangled, it takes him 4 seconds to be able to fly again. (This is also a balance with time to mount ethereals into consideration)

- Anti-Air nets can be bought in the PvP Coin Arena

- They land on the ground like Bolas. They can be picked up and reused.

- They have new sounds and animations.

- Take note, you can throw an Anti-Air Net and a Bola, back to back. This will make interesting situations in field PvP if you are getting ganked by a Gargoyle and a Human/Elf. If you can pull it off. Godspeed.

- Requires 50.0 Throwing Skill... HUH? .....


HUMAN and ELF THROWING?

- Yes humans & elves can now gain the skill of throwing. No not like Gargoyle's where they can wear a cyclone and throw naturally, like they do with their bows in a sense.

- They will be able to throw the special weapons below. Each weapon requires some skill in throwing. Gargoyle's can throw anything below also.

- How do I gain throwing if I cannot wear a cyclone like a Garg Mr King & Mr Vorspire? Head to Glass City, on the table of free armor and weapons you will see a Training Throwing Dagger. Use this if your are a human or elf to gain throwing skills on the training elementals.

- In the future we should have more specialized throwables.

- To use the training throwing dagger. Double click it, target the training elemental, or whatever, and if you don't move it will keep throwing it and you gain quick. Once you walk/move then it will stop.

- You are perfectly fine at 100.0 throwing on a human/elf. There is no bonus for the skill, you simply get it to use the throwables. Gargoyles still want 120 throwing obviously.


NEW THROWING WEAPON, FOR ALL RACES


- Introducing the Throwing Axe. Any race can use it, you simply double click it, select your victim.





- Will do, randomly, 20-40 TRUE damage. Yes true damage. Your armor, skills, stats etc do not have an effect.

- You can only use one every 2 minutes.

- Requires 100.0 Throwing Skill to use.

- Will land near your target after impact. Up to you to pick it back up before they do.

- Great for kill shots. Really great.

- Can be bought with PvP Coins in PvP Coin Arena.

- It is not equipable, but will clear your hands on double click. So double check your equip hot key.

- The funnest part? This axe has a small chance (about 1 out of 100) to instant kill your target with a head shot. Your victims head flies off, blood splatters all over. Dead. It's pretty awesome. HEADSHOT. You might get lucky.




Watch a video Vorspire posted of it happening in game here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At1iSx6Z_YM&feature=g-u-u&context=G21032cbFUAAAAAAACAA



BOBOMB - The Demolitioner

- Added category Demolitioner to the Tinkering crafting menu.

- New throwable bomb called Bobomb. Will do 20-40 true damage

- Can throw one every 60 seconds.





- Takes 80.0 Throwing Skill to throw it.

- Can be made with 90.0 Tinkering using 4 Black Powders (read below), 3 Bales of Cotton, 10 Iron Ingots.



PLAYING CATCH W/ THE OLD MAN

- a fun little back n forth catch using a giant stone ball called pocket lint. Pass it back and forth with another player, it's cute and fun when your hanging out.

- Can be bought for 20 Pandora Coins, in the Pandora Coin Room.

- And prbly a good idea to know who your throwing it too. Incase they don't throw it back.



Alchemy

- You can now make Black Powder via Explosion section of the Alchemy crafting menu.

- Black Powder takes a couple of new High Seas resources and an old. 6 Saltpeters (see below), 1 Charcoals, and 1 Sulfurous Ash. Just like on UO Guide.

- You can make Black Powder at 65.0 Alchemy, and have around a 70% success chance at 100.0 Alchemy.  


Mining

- You can now mine Saltpeters using the skill: Mining. When you find some it will tell you that you got it from a niter deposit. Could be in any mountains.

- Saltpeter is compared to Shadow Iron ore for rarity.

- Mining Sand is a bit faster.

- Chances of getting precious jewels has been upped a bit.


Cooking

- Charcoal added to Cooking menu via Ingredients section.

- Takes 1 log and 1 board, only need 30.0 cooking skill to make Charcoal.

- Must be near an oven or fire source.


Fishing

- You have a chance to fish up saltpeter while fishing. Same chances as any high seas fish. Random.


TWEAKS

- When placing a house, instead of the default name being 'An Unanmed House' it is now 'A Pandorian's House'

- House Signs are dyable with tokuno pigments. But beware, you can dye anyone's house sign. This will create some pranks, if someone wants to waste a charge on it.

- The bloody Training Elly's shouldn't wander around anymore after a reboot. (So annoying they are)

- Like I said before, Battle stats & profiles have been wiped to start the seasons. But they should never be wiped again.

- Medusa is now on a timer. Once she spawns after you put the key in the basket. You have 2 hours to kill her. If she is not dead within 2 hours she will dissappear. This will help stop her bugging out when someone leaves her in the room and does not kill her. Then no one else can fight her. If this happens, it will always fix it's self within 2 hours.

This publish was a lot of hard work and fun. But the real significance of it is the foundations of some things we have layed down that open up many doors for the future. Much more to come. Stay tuned.

                                                - King Konstantine & Vorspire



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